Saturday night, we were getting ready to leave the house to go eat dinner with Michael's family when Michael went downstairs to check the fire in our fireplace before we left. We have an insert in our fireplace to where we can heat our house to keep our heat pumps from running so much. He went down and opened it and it just erupted into flames. He closed the fireplace door and went outside. Our chimney was roaring like a freight train. We had a chimney fire!!! Our first ever at our home. Being a mom, first thing I did was grab kids and head out the door. E was panicking just like me. I put them in the truck and ran them to my mother in laws so they would not be so scared. I came back home to wait on the fire department.
The fire department got there when flames were shooting out of our chimney! I was scared to death. If I wasn't freaking out so bad I may have taken a pic of my house but I was too afraid to look. I just started walking down my driveway in the cold and dark, crying and praying. For those of you who have never been to my house, my driveway is about 1/2 mile long so along the way on my walk, my parents walked up, my grandfather and his wife and a friend from our old church. The road had been blocked so no one else was allowed to drive down our driveway so that is why everyone was walking.
Thank goodness the firemen got the fire out with this powder stuff and cleaned everything out. I am so thankful for volunteer firemen!!! I am so thankful to God that the fire stayed in our chimney!! Once, everyone left about 2 hours after this all started, we went to get E and M from my mother in laws. I did not realize till then that poor E did not have on socks or shoes when we were running outside. She said they teach them to get out of the building at school and her shoes were downstairs with the fireplace and she wasn't going down there! Poor thing she was so upset when it happened. We are praising God for His protection upon us all! It has been one more weekend but God is good!
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